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Amherst is a city with an area of 16.86 km² and a population of 9,470 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Amherst Amherst is a town in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, approximately 194 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to Dr Graham P. Hennessey, "The Micmac name was Nemcheboogwek meaning "going up rising ground". The Acadians who settled here as early as 1672 called the village Les Planches. It was named Amherst by Colonel Joseph Morse, the first settler, in honor of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, Commander of the British forces in America." The town was first settled in 1764, originally three kilometres west, after the expulsion of the Acadians.